Mark Lewis
@fatpaulscholes.bsky.social
Birder: patch birding , sound recording, migration, and rare birds occasionally
For any bird recorders who want to easily convert eBird data into a more recorder friendly format
Hi Jared, Mark - here's a link to the app: dbradnum-ebirdcountyrecordcleaner.share.connect.posit.cloud
It's also built in R, a Shiny app, and can share a link to the underlying code if helpful. See the instructions tab for details, and feel free to drop me a DM if any questions or issues.
It's also built in R, a Shiny app, and can share a link to the underlying code if helpful. See the instructions tab for details, and feel free to drop me a DM if any questions or issues.
eBird County Data Cleaner
dbradnum-ebirdcountyrecordcleaner.share.connect.posit.cloud
October 12, 2025 at 7:11 AM
For any bird recorders who want to easily convert eBird data into a more recorder friendly format
Awful pics, but any thoughts on what these two dark hybrids are? Barnacle crossed with something, obvs…
September 30, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Awful pics, but any thoughts on what these two dark hybrids are? Barnacle crossed with something, obvs…
Seawatching was very quiet last week but there were some notable distractions so I might have missed a couple of manxies…
July 28, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Seawatching was very quiet last week but there were some notable distractions so I might have missed a couple of manxies…
Arctic tern are currently hanging round at Girdle Ness in un(recently)precedented numbers. I counted 460 today. Still plenty to come from the local breeding colony too. Lovely to see this species have a good year
July 27, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Arctic tern are currently hanging round at Girdle Ness in un(recently)precedented numbers. I counted 460 today. Still plenty to come from the local breeding colony too. Lovely to see this species have a good year
Starlings, baby starlings, nest in wall, seaside. #bioacoustics #BirdingScotland soundcloud.com/fat-paul-sch...
Starlings feeding young
Starlings visiting a nest in a wall to feed young, probably just a few days before fledging
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June 28, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Starlings, baby starlings, nest in wall, seaside. #bioacoustics #BirdingScotland soundcloud.com/fat-paul-sch...
Red knot foraging in a small group on the shore of the Little Sea, Sanday. I love these tiny contact calls, mostly inaudible to my ears even though I was only 15 m away. soundcloud.com/fat-paul-sch...
Red knot feeding at close range (recorded from inside the car!)
A group of about 15 red knot calling softly to one another as they feed at close range. Most calls were not audible (to me...) at the time.
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June 20, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Red knot foraging in a small group on the shore of the Little Sea, Sanday. I love these tiny contact calls, mostly inaudible to my ears even though I was only 15 m away. soundcloud.com/fat-paul-sch...
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JOB OPPORTUNITY | ASSISTANT DEVELOPMENT OFFICER
We're looking for an Assistant Development Officer to enhance the Club’s delivery of key programmes and provide vital support to our Development Manager, across several cross-cutting areas of activity. Full vacancy details here: //tinyurl.com/3jrd5t5r
We're looking for an Assistant Development Officer to enhance the Club’s delivery of key programmes and provide vital support to our Development Manager, across several cross-cutting areas of activity. Full vacancy details here: //tinyurl.com/3jrd5t5r
June 18, 2025 at 3:10 PM
JOB OPPORTUNITY | ASSISTANT DEVELOPMENT OFFICER
We're looking for an Assistant Development Officer to enhance the Club’s delivery of key programmes and provide vital support to our Development Manager, across several cross-cutting areas of activity. Full vacancy details here: //tinyurl.com/3jrd5t5r
We're looking for an Assistant Development Officer to enhance the Club’s delivery of key programmes and provide vital support to our Development Manager, across several cross-cutting areas of activity. Full vacancy details here: //tinyurl.com/3jrd5t5r
A feature of my Sanday trip was the 'tundrae type' ringed plovers, including a tight flock of 172 birds together in a field. Here's several birds feeding on the Little Sea, a great place to see (and hear!) waders close up. #bioacoustics #orkneybirding #BirdingScotland soundcloud.com/fat-paul-sch...
'Tundrae type' ringed plovers on the Little Sea
a group of ringed plovers, en route to breed in Greenland or similar latitudes, on the Little Sea, Sanday
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June 17, 2025 at 4:49 PM
A feature of my Sanday trip was the 'tundrae type' ringed plovers, including a tight flock of 172 birds together in a field. Here's several birds feeding on the Little Sea, a great place to see (and hear!) waders close up. #bioacoustics #orkneybirding #BirdingScotland soundcloud.com/fat-paul-sch...
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Marsh Tits are now only found in 1 known area of Scotland & are one of our rarest breeding birds at 3 known pairs. The Scottish Marsh Tit Project is looking for volunteers to assist in the species' conservation. Join an online info evening on 2 July to find out more tinyurl.com/yswhtuxz #ornithology
June 13, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Marsh Tits are now only found in 1 known area of Scotland & are one of our rarest breeding birds at 3 known pairs. The Scottish Marsh Tit Project is looking for volunteers to assist in the species' conservation. Join an online info evening on 2 July to find out more tinyurl.com/yswhtuxz #ornithology
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04:45 this morning. A euphony of plentiful native avifauna. This is how it should be. 🇨🇦🌎 #birdingBC
June 12, 2025 at 5:39 AM
04:45 this morning. A euphony of plentiful native avifauna. This is how it should be. 🇨🇦🌎 #birdingBC
Not only is this a really neat study but it also has the best 'lay' summary I've seen. I'm not totally lay but still, I appreciate the simplicity and clarity in how the work is described here. More of this sort of thing please...
June 11, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Not only is this a really neat study but it also has the best 'lay' summary I've seen. I'm not totally lay but still, I appreciate the simplicity and clarity in how the work is described here. More of this sort of thing please...
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Small webpage for an ongoing #bioacoustic monitoring project I am part of at Stora Karlsö: auklab-audio.github.io
Adding #audio will hopefully let us learn more about the life of the Guillemots. What are they saying?
Lesson learned: designing a recording setup is a challenge and lots of fun! 🔊
Adding #audio will hopefully let us learn more about the life of the Guillemots. What are they saying?
Lesson learned: designing a recording setup is a challenge and lots of fun! 🔊
Auklab Audio Research
News and updates about the continuous acoustic monitoring at the Auk Lab
auklab-audio.github.io
June 10, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Small webpage for an ongoing #bioacoustic monitoring project I am part of at Stora Karlsö: auklab-audio.github.io
Adding #audio will hopefully let us learn more about the life of the Guillemots. What are they saying?
Lesson learned: designing a recording setup is a challenge and lots of fun! 🔊
Adding #audio will hopefully let us learn more about the life of the Guillemots. What are they saying?
Lesson learned: designing a recording setup is a challenge and lots of fun! 🔊
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Absolute bliss. Our 30 yr rewilding plot at Monks Wood is full of singing Willow Warblers. This 2ha plot is the only part of the 165 ha woodland complex where this declining bird still breeds, showing how natural colonisation around existing woods gives biodiversity benefits from the diversity.
June 11, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Absolute bliss. Our 30 yr rewilding plot at Monks Wood is full of singing Willow Warblers. This 2ha plot is the only part of the 165 ha woodland complex where this declining bird still breeds, showing how natural colonisation around existing woods gives biodiversity benefits from the diversity.
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Ooft. Ya beauty!! Out of context, particularly ‘guiding finds’ are always a bonus- and jammy as. This 2nd cal male Pallid fairly raised the pulse this morning on way home for breakfast with my photo-tour group,
after a 4:30 start this morning 😳
#rarebirdsUK #shetlandbirding #shetland #birding
after a 4:30 start this morning 😳
#rarebirdsUK #shetlandbirding #shetland #birding
June 11, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Ooft. Ya beauty!! Out of context, particularly ‘guiding finds’ are always a bonus- and jammy as. This 2nd cal male Pallid fairly raised the pulse this morning on way home for breakfast with my photo-tour group,
after a 4:30 start this morning 😳
#rarebirdsUK #shetlandbirding #shetland #birding
after a 4:30 start this morning 😳
#rarebirdsUK #shetlandbirding #shetland #birding
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#Nightjars! Don't you just love 'em? An exceptional year in NE Scotland. Another pr pinned down last night w/ Paul Baxter & another bird at a new site
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www.bto.org/get-involved...
@scottishbirding.bsky.social @btoscotland.bsky.social @btobirds.bsky.social #birdingscotland @greg-conway.bsky.social
June 11, 2025 at 4:59 PM
#Nightjars! Don't you just love 'em? An exceptional year in NE Scotland. Another pr pinned down last night w/ Paul Baxter & another bird at a new site
www.bto.org/get-involved...
@scottishbirding.bsky.social @btoscotland.bsky.social @btobirds.bsky.social #birdingscotland @greg-conway.bsky.social
www.bto.org/get-involved...
@scottishbirding.bsky.social @btoscotland.bsky.social @btobirds.bsky.social #birdingscotland @greg-conway.bsky.social
A rare non-bird sound. Midwife toads pinging off each other in the heat of a French night #bioacoustics soundcloud.com/fat-paul-sch...
midwife toads
Midwife toads calling in the heat of the night in Morlaas, south-western France
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June 11, 2025 at 7:29 AM
A rare non-bird sound. Midwife toads pinging off each other in the heat of a French night #bioacoustics soundcloud.com/fat-paul-sch...
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Regarding UK Stonechats with features of the Continental race rubicola, e.g. white rumps and ‘shoulders’… how about this stunner in Cumbria over the weekend? #UKbirding #birds
June 9, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Regarding UK Stonechats with features of the Continental race rubicola, e.g. white rumps and ‘shoulders’… how about this stunner in Cumbria over the weekend? #UKbirding #birds
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Iberian Chiffchaff still present early this morning. Same spot. Singing continuously and showing better than yesterday evening. #birdingFife #rarebirdsUK
Iberian Chiffchaff at Tentsmuir this afternoon. Some full and partial song, plus heard giving Iberian call a couple of times. An overdue 1st for Fife, found by a visiting birder #birdingFife ##rarebirdsUK
June 9, 2025 at 5:42 AM
Iberian Chiffchaff still present early this morning. Same spot. Singing continuously and showing better than yesterday evening. #birdingFife #rarebirdsUK
More data on white-billed divers on the Dogger Bank.
International bedeutendes Vorkommen von Gelbschnabeltauchern im Bereich der Doggerbank entdeckt
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Es deutet sich an, dass hier ein wichtiges Frühjahrs-Rastgebiet vor dem Zug in das sibirische Brutgebiet entdeckt wurde.
Foto des Tauchers: L. Ehmke
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Es deutet sich an, dass hier ein wichtiges Frühjahrs-Rastgebiet vor dem Zug in das sibirische Brutgebiet entdeckt wurde.
Foto des Tauchers: L. Ehmke
June 8, 2025 at 8:38 AM
More data on white-billed divers on the Dogger Bank.
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It felt like a reward finding this Blyth's Reed Warbler in the irises behind the street on #StKilda yesterday after a long hard day in the field searching for Great Skuas. Fourth island record and third in 5 years!
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@birdguides.bsky.social
@scottishbirding.bsky.social
@hebridesbirds.bsky.social
@birdguides.bsky.social
@scottishbirding.bsky.social
June 8, 2025 at 7:04 AM
It felt like a reward finding this Blyth's Reed Warbler in the irises behind the street on #StKilda yesterday after a long hard day in the field searching for Great Skuas. Fourth island record and third in 5 years!
@hebridesbirds.bsky.social
@birdguides.bsky.social
@scottishbirding.bsky.social
@hebridesbirds.bsky.social
@birdguides.bsky.social
@scottishbirding.bsky.social
FEEEEEET
Summer plumaged Grey Phalarope found by Phil yesterday morning. I got to see it in late evening light last night around 9pm! So glad I did! Look at those feet! #shetland #springbirding #greyphalarope
June 7, 2025 at 6:10 PM
FEEEEEET
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The persistent, strong, north-westerlies largely put paid to any hopes of spring overshoots this past week on Tiree, but there's always the local specialities to keep you entertained (and awake at night) #tireebirding.
June 6, 2025 at 8:40 PM
The persistent, strong, north-westerlies largely put paid to any hopes of spring overshoots this past week on Tiree, but there's always the local specialities to keep you entertained (and awake at night) #tireebirding.
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Puffins nest in underground burrows for safety but some also use boulder scree like this individual…
June 7, 2025 at 6:29 AM
Puffins nest in underground burrows for safety but some also use boulder scree like this individual…
On this day… another moment from Shetland 2018. This bearded seal in Lerwick was a real crowd pleaser!
June 6, 2025 at 12:37 PM
On this day… another moment from Shetland 2018. This bearded seal in Lerwick was a real crowd pleaser!
On this day… in 2018. Tagging red-throated diver in Shetland with the late and very great Dave Okill and @ljohnbirding1.bsky.social
June 5, 2025 at 9:27 PM
On this day… in 2018. Tagging red-throated diver in Shetland with the late and very great Dave Okill and @ljohnbirding1.bsky.social